"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." – Charles Darwin

"Brutality begins where skill ends." -
E.v.Neindorff

"Trying to earn the horse's trust must always be one of the main training guidelines." -
A.Podhajsky

"For what the horse does under compulsion, … is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. There would be a great deal more ungracefulness than beauty in either a horse or a man that was so treated.  No, he should show off all his finest and most brilliant performances willingly and at a mere sign." -
Xenophon (4th cent. B.C.)

"Make it a habit to praise when the horse yields."-
N.Oliveira