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Alexis Carrel - From the Advice category:
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Ambition category:
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)
Alexis Carrel - From the Beauty category:
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Character category:
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Destiny category:
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Education category:
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Efficiency category:
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)
Alexis Carrel - From the Effort category:
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Faith category:
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Greatness category:
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Habit category:
As to virtue... it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Importance category:
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Intuition category:
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Jealousy category:
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Life category:
The quality of life is more important than life itself. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Observation category:
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Prayer category:
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Questions category:
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Religion category:
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Responsibility category:
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. (Alexis Carrel)
Alexis Carrel - From the Suffering category:
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Alexis Carrel)
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