A question is a lens that frames how you see things.

A question is a provocation.

A question is what stirs up new associations and brings up mental cues.

A question leads, and directs.

A good question gets to the heart of things.

A bad question gives you red herrings.

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.

I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts were confused. Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

—C.S. Lewis