Top 35 Alexis Carrel Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor ”

— Alexis Carrel

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2. “The quality of life is more important than life itself.”

— Alexis Carrel

3. “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

4. “Those who don’t learn to fight worry, die young.”

— Alexis Carrel

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

— Alexis Carrel

6. “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

7. “A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”

— Alexis Carrel

8. “If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.”

— Alexis Carrel

9. “The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.”

— Alexis Carrel

10. “Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.”

— Alexis Carrel

11. “Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.”

— Alexis Carrel

12. “In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.”

— Alexis Carrel

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

— Alexis Carrel

14. “One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one’s feelings.”

— Alexis Carrel

15. “Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.”

— Alexis Carrel

16. “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

17. “Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.”

— Alexis Carrel

18. “Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.”

— Alexis Carrel

19. “When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.”

— Alexis Carrel

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

— Alexis Carrel

21. “Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.”

— Alexis Carrel

22. “The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.”

— Alexis Carrel

23. “There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.”

— Alexis Carrel

24. “Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.”

— Alexis Carrel

25. “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

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

— Alexis Carrel

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

— Alexis Carrel

28. “In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.”

— Alexis Carrel

29. “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

30. “Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.”

— Alexis Carrel

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

— Alexis Carrel

32. “Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.”

— Alexis Carrel

33. “Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.”

— Alexis Carrel

34. “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

35. “A tissue is evidently an enduring thing. It’s functional and structural conditions become modified from moment to moment. Time is really the fourth dimension of living organisms. It enters as part into the constitution of a tissue. Cell colonies, or organs, are events which progressively unfold themselves. They must be studied like history.”

— Alexis Carrel