Center for Public Intellectuals, eh?
My favorite saying (which I’m proud to have come up with myself) is:
Don’t confuse someone intelligence with intellectualism.
Intelligence is something you can see and often measure. It comes through on its own. Your typical intellectual as we see them nowadays defines himself/herself as better, smarter, more brilliant than everyone else. They force you to accept their “greatness” whether it’s true or not.
*-someone