Extended Quotes
Refresh your minds with marvels of wisdom because minds too get tired as your bodies do. — Hazrat Ali
Click on a theme from the list below to see all quotes in the category (they appear below the category list). Note that quotes may appear in more than one theme. Click on the “All Quotes (Chronologically)” category below to view all quotes; newest quotes appear first.
Each quote is also available in an attractive PDF format for posting on jamatkhana notice boards or as teaching aids, seminar handouts, discussion topics, general references, etc.
Also see our attractive, one page thematic charts which provide selected quotes for easy-to-digest synopses of some His Highness the Aga Khan’s key insights and advices, theme by theme.
- NanoWisdoms' thematic chart on pluralism ·· PDF
- 2013.02.11 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on tradition and modernity in Islamic architecture - Of "bogus orientalism" & "alien models" ·· PDF
- 2013.02.08 - Excerpts: Their Highnesses the Aga Khans III and IV on tradition and modernity -- Part 4/4: Innovate; "Discover new knowledge" ·· PDF
- 2013.01.27 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan explains the Clash of Ignorance: foreign policy compromised by ignorance and no foresight ·· PDF
- 2013.01.18 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on having 'humility before the Divine' ·· PDF
- 2013.01.13 - Excerpts: Their Highnesses the Aga Khans III and IV on Islam's and the Qur'an's assent of freedom of individual interpretation ·· PDF
- 2013.01.09 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on a manipulative, superficial media ·· PDF
- 2013.01.04 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on balancing the global and the local: the hazard of a superficial, homogenised mega-culture ·· PDF
- 2012.10.29 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on Pope Benedict XVI's controversial quote of Emperor Manuel about Prophet Muhammad ·· PDF
- 2012.10.13 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan on the overriding concerns and problems that worry him ·· PDF
- 2012.10.12 - Excerpts: TH Aga Khans III and IV on interpreting the faith: individuality vs formalistic approaches which anchor faith in time ·· PDF
- 2012.10.11 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan on the theocratic state and democracy ·· PDF
- 2012.09.25 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on nurturing healthy and competent democracies -- both old and new ·· PDF
- 2012.09.21 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan on the offensive caricatures (cartoons) of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) ·· PDF
- 2012.08.17 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on 'the sharpening of cultural conflict within Western societies' ·· PDF
- 2012.07.10 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on Tajikistan ·· PDF
- 2012.07.05 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the rational behind the Aga Khan Academies ·· PDF
- 2012.06.17 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on democracy (2) ·· PDF
- 2012.05.19 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the real benefits of using the internet for education ·· PDF
- 2012.04.08 - Excerpt - Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III's rebuke to The Times, London ·· PDF
- 2012.03.20 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on cultural homogenisation, pluralism and peace ·· PDF
- 2012.02.22 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the media and the Creative Encounter ·· PDF
- 2012.02.18 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan on interpreting the Qur'an ·· PDF
- 2011.12.16 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on poverty, pluralism, peace, progress and the role of knowledge ·· PDF
- 2011.12.07 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on educating for pluralism and the Canadian experience ·· PDF
- 2011.11.17 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the pluralistic legacy of Toledo ·· PDF
- 2011.10.02 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on pressures facing Islam and its place in the international world ·· PDF
- 2011.09.28 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on supporting pluralism at a personal level ·· PDF
- 2010.06.02 ·· PDF
