Buku ini merangkai dan mengabadikan hikmah pujangga dari Timur dan Barat, di antaranya: Aristoteles, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Ahmad Yani, Abu Bakar Shiddiq, Benjamin Franklin, Baharuddin Lopa, Cicero, Charles Dickens, Cipto Mangunkusumo, Doewes Dekker, Erasmus, Eisenhower, Elizabeth B Browning, Evita Peron, Franklin de Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, Al-Ghazali, Goethe, Helen Keller, Himory Shinya, HB Jassin, Henry David Thoreau, Isa Almasih, Immanuel Kant, Ibnu Khaldun, Imam Syafi ’i, Jean Paul Sartre, John Locke, Jalaluddin Rumi, John F Kennedy, Kongfuzi, Kalidasa, Kahlil Gibran, Kazuo Inamori, KHA Dahlan, Laozi, Lord Boden Powel, Luqman Al-Hakim, Mencius, Martin Luther King, Muhammad saw., Napoleon Bonaparte, Nehru, Neil Armstrong, Omar Khayyam, Plato, Paulus, Pouw Kioe An, Paulo Coelho, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Rabindranath Tagore, Robert F Kennedy, RA Karti ni, Sokrates, Sidharta Gautama, St. Augusti ne, Soekarno, Shakespeare, Thomas Alva Edison, Tony Buzan, The Liang Gie, Theresa, Umar bin Khathab, Virginia Woolf, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, dan Yahya bin Mu’adz.