Horse Psychology Quotes

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

I just love the development of horses, getting into their brains, making them more athletic and powerful, responsive, and I'm rubbish at everything else.

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

I'm kind of a horse whisperer; I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures; I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.

He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo

Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a horse.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.