Asking good questions is hard because it requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious,… - James E. Ryan

there is no greater gift to bestow on children than the gift of curiosity.

Good friends ask great questions, as do good parents. They pose questions that, just in the asking, show how much they know and care about you. They ask questions that make you pause, that make you think, that provoke honesty, and that invite a deeper connection. They ask questions that don’t so much demand an answer as prove irresistible. Posing irresistible questions, I believe, is an art worth cultivating.

The only truly bad questions are not really questions at all. They are statements disguised as questions that are meant to be demeaning or designed to trip you up.