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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.