We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.


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.


We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.