Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. – J. K. Rowling

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. – Quintilian