No hay peor sordo que el que no quiere oír.
“There is no one deafer than the one who does not want to hear.”
Willful ignorance is more stubborn than any real limitation.
— Traditional Spain Wisdom, Spain
Source: Traditional Spain proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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