Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Bumped
“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”
— Alain
On prouve tout ce qu'on veut, et la vraie difficulté est de savoir ce qu'on veut prouver.
Système des Beaux-Arts (1920), as quoted in The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less) by John M. Shanahan, p. 34
Variant translation: We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
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