Albert Einstein stated that "imagination is more important than knowledge." Einstein claimed that he had only two original ideas during his entire life, and that these were the products of his reasoning plus intuition. A human acts feels, and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment . This is the fundamental law of the mind. It is the way in which humans are structured. Man is, for the most part, "teleological", always moving in the direction of his most dominant impulse.

Excerpt from 'What Makes the Great Great' by Dennis P. Kimbro Ph.D.