15 Inspirations and Quotes for the Curious

15 Inspirations and Quotes for the Curious

Being curious has many benefits such as better health, improved intelligence, positive rewarding relationships and increased happiness due to a greater sense of purpose and meaning in one’s life. Curious people tend to be:

•             Open minded, objective and optimistic yet balanced with doubt and skepticism, they resist leaping to assumptions and are better able to think for themselves

•             Persistent and resilient, less stressed, more tolerant of ambiguity and uncertainty

•             Adaptable and humble

•             Intrinsically interested in people, they ask genuine questions, listen sincerely for understanding and consequently develop strong relationships

•             Actively seek challenging situations - excellent learners who are more likely to look for patterns, persist with challenges and derive joy from learning

•             They are more aware, use their senses to a higher degree and are more alert to details and opportunities.

•             Creative and innovative they embrace problems as puzzles to solve and have an entrepreneurial spirit

•             Inquisitive, engaged and natural investigators, they focus on getting to the root cause of issues

•             Enthusiastic in taking up change they take initiative to explore, question and understand their world

•             They are more flexible and mentally agile (curious people are known to be more resilient to aging illnesses like dementia)

•             Many curious people become involved in the Risk Management field.

Below is a small collection of “inspirational pieces” and “one liners” for those who have a curious nature, who like to travel or bite off more than they can chew.

My friend, roommate during my army days in Singapore, entrepreneur and outdoor nut, Glenn Roberts shared this one with me many years ago:

“The minute your past is more exciting than your future, you are a has-been” ~ 

A.U.

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My Grandfather G.W. Langdale-Hunt who along with his brothers had served in WWII would often share with me poems that had kept him sane whilst the war raged on around them. This one by Robert Frost was one of his favorites:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

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I've had the honor of standing in the company of many a brave person, one of whom introduced me to a piece of writing from an unknown author titled "A Pilgrims Passage". He had been carrying it around in his head and when I heard it I couldn't help but connect with the words and be inspired. I share it here for those who might be looking for some inspiration, to encourage others or to put into context a person’s efforts in life:

A Pilgrims Passage

Go as a pilgrim and seek out danger,

Far from the comforts and well-lit avenues of life.

Pit your very soul against the unknown,

And seek stimulation in the company of the brave.

Experience cold and hunger, heat and thirst,

And survive to seek another challenge and another dawn.

Only then will you be at peace with yourself,

And be able to know and say…

“I looked down on the farthest side of the mountain,

And fulfilled and understanding all, am truly content,

That I lived a full life,

And one that was of my own choosing.”

A.U.

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Quotes

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.  ~ Bernard Baruch

The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity.  ~ Dorothy Parker

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.  ~ Franklin P. Adams

I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious.  ~ Albert Einstein

Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.  ~ Sudie Back

The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality.  ~ Albert Einstein

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.  ~ Arnold Edinborough

I keep six honest serving-men,

They taught me all I knew;

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who.

~ Rudyard Kipling

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.  ~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.  ~ Ralph W. Sockman

The one real objective of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.  ~ Bishop Mandell Creighton

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Do you have a great inspirational saying, or quote about Curiosity? Please share it with us in the comments area below.