Alexis Carrel Quotes

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Alexis Carrel

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Alexis Carrel

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Alexis Carrel

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Alexis Carrel

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Alexis Carrel

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.

Alexis Carrel

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

Alexis Carrel