"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another." ― John Burroughs Topic(s): Imagination Tags: facts, treat More From John Burroughs "To me – old age is always ten years older than I am." "Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years." "The secret of happiness is something to do." More In Imagination "Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."― Saint Francis de Sales "You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can’t imagine something that has never existed before, it’s impossible."― Rita Dove "The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination."― Bryant H. McGill