When all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

There is an old adage that encapsulates this: “To the man with only a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.” Not every problem is a nail. The world is full of complications and interconnections that can only be explained through understanding of multiple models.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Если ваш единственный инструмент - молоток, то каждая проблема становится похожей на гвоздь.

When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a culture war.

لو أن الأداه الوحيدة في يدك هي مطرقة فإنك تميل الى أن ترى كل مشكلة على أنها مسمار

And he will also suffer from the psychological defect caught by the proverb “To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” The fifth helpful notion is that really big effects, lollapalooza effects, will often come only from large combinations of factors.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and head of the nail were infinitely big, if would be just the same; the point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of the soul, and social degradation all at the same time, is a nail whose point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time