Thought is shallow. We won't say all thought is shallow. Nirdesa Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism. Learning taxonomy was devised to sort that out too. He was a genius.
Poets deal in images far and wide.
One should not put up with being hinderend and hampered in putting insightful essence to good use and thus making it fruitful. The quite liberating British aristocrat wanted us to tone down belief considerably. Flashes of intuition tend to spur to action through advancing tick tack toe scheming. Give it a try if you are able to keep a cool head only. Along with the study of how to gain handiness in this and that, one should tend to trimming of non-essentials of one's own.