No hay peor sordo que el que no quiere oír.
“There is no one deafer than he who does not want to hear.”
People who refuse to listen are worse than those who truly cannot.
— Traditional Costa Rica Wisdom, Costa Rica
Source: Traditional Costa Rican/Spanish proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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