Greater Effort Quotes by Alexis Carrel

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

— Alexis Carrel

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for…

— Alexis Carrel

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.…

— Alexis Carrel

Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same…

— Alexis Carrel

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

— Alexis Carrel

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

— Alexis Carrel

“Happiness depends on one being exactly fitted to the nature of one's work.”

— Alexis Carrel

The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been…

— Alexis Carrel

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

— Alexis Carrel

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

— Alexis Carrel

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

— Alexis Carrel

...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

— Alexis Carrel

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

— Alexis Carrel

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

— Alexis Carrel

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

— Alexis Carrel