I don't disagree with your principle. That said, we need to release ourselves from thoughts at times. We can adjudicate forever whether the blue you see is the same as the blue I see, or which is the superior potato chip, or whether to take the road less traveled or not. And if we remain locked in eternal debate, we end up like Sylvia Plath's protagonist, watching the figs shrivel up as life passes us by.

People sometimes learn of Kahneman's system 1 and system 2 thinking and decide it's a failure to ever use system 1. No! System 1 is used for most of our day, to free us up for the decisions that really matter. An underrated aspect of the art of making decisions is deciding which decisions to make deliberately.