Quote

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Alexis Carrel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Best
Human
Humans
Hard
Indispensable
Life
Bringing
Personality
Conditions
Character

More quotes by Alexis Carrel

Image
Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
Alexis Carrel
Image
...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.
Alexis Carrel
Image
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
Image
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Alexis Carrel
Image
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
Alexis Carrel
Image
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
Alexis Carrel
Image
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis Carrel
Image
There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
Alexis Carrel
Image
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
Alexis Carrel
Image
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
Image
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
Alexis Carrel
Image
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
Image
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.
Alexis Carrel