Our world leaders need to be people with wisdom.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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