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Read our cute and funny dolphin Quotes and sayings if watching these amazing sea creatures bring you a lot of warmth and happiness.
Apart from making those incredible dives above the water, do you know dolphins are intelligent mammals with curious, playful behaviors and a large brain similar to humans?
Though they appear to be quite friendly and have even shown protecting surfers from shark attacks, they are, by nature, wild mammals, and it is always better to admire them from a distance.
And there are instances where dolphins held captive in closed recreational park waters have experienced distress and, in turn, harmed and bitten humans.
Our inspirational dolphin quotes will interest you greatly if you are a fan of bottlenose dolphins and a wildlife watcher.
Best Dolphin Quotes and Sayings
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to 50 words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
– Carl Sagan
When the shark laughs with the dolphin, there is a devilish spirit at play.
– Tahitian Proverb
Skeptics, like dolphins, change when dying.
– Lady Blessington
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
– Horace
If I had to come back in life, I’d come back as a dolphin. They’re always smiling; they’re always playing.
– Nathan Phillips
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
– Jacques Yves Cousteau
When I see a dolphin, I know it’s just as smart as I am.
– Captain Beefheart
Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.
– Terry Pratchett
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz – a true rhapsody in blue – are hunted to the edge of silence.
– Jay Griffiths
Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.
– Yoko Ono
To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
– Plutarch
A dolphin’s smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they’re always happy.
– Ric O’Barry
There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.
– Jacques Cousteau
Dolphins are not automatic air-breathers like we are. Every breath is a conscious effort. If life becomes too unbearable, the dolphins just take a breath and they sink to the bottom. They don’t take the next breath.
– Ric O’Barry
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.
– Douglas Adams
Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.
– Hal Roach
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
– R. Buckminster Fuller
Among the sea-fishes many stories are told about the dolphin, indicative of his gentle and kindly nature. It appears to be the fleetest of all animals, marine and terrestrial, and it can leap over the masts of large vessels.
– Aristotle
I invite you to entertain some new beliefs about dolphins that these Cetacea with huge brains are more intelligent than any man or woman.
– John C. Lilly
Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
– Tom Robbins
We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
– Fidel Castro
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
– Peter Singer
There’s no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.
– Albert Einstein
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
– Jacques Yves Cousteau
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