aspire to alight

there is so teeming much.
but, first of all and all:

All knowledge falls into one of two divisions: the knowledge of "truths" and the knowledge of "words:" and if the former is first in importance, the latter is acquired first in order of time. They are not to be commended who, in their anxiety to increase their store of truths, neglect the necessary art of expressing them. For ideas are only intelligible to us by means of the words which describe them; wherefore defective knowledge of language reacts upon our apprehension of the truths expressed.

-from Erasmus De Ratione Studii