Just as it is no use trying to get a person to see what he does not wish to
see, so is it useless to persuade a person to hear what he does not wish to
hear.

> Mr Harris strode down to the bottom of the garden, where his son was busy
doing nothing among the bushes.

> ‘Why don’t you come in when I call you?’ he demanded.

> ‘I’m sorry, Dad, but I didn’t hear you. ‘

> ‘None so deaf as those who won’t hear. Get back indoors and do your
homework.’

##### See also:

* None so blind as those who won’t see