But contemporaneously with the fact that in place of the science of man's destiny and welfare appears the science of universal knowledge,—since science lost its own sense and meaning, and true science has been scornfully called religion,—true art, as an important activity of men, has disappeared.
— from What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Among the rest a student, rambling In woods and meadows, also came, In search of useful knowledge scrambling, Wherever he could find the same.
— from Poems by William Anderson

'Now do I look like a person who——' 'Well, you see we're all so certain they're such abominations,' said Vida, 'I thought maybe some of us knew something about them.'
— from The Convert by Elizabeth Robins

Some of us kill, some steal, some seduce virgins, some take our friends' wives, but most of us, in one way or another, deliberately and repeatedly break the law, so we are criminals.
— from Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett

That is the serpent that some of us know something about, that is our old enemy Nahash.
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

loud laughed the wily king while rapping on the door, "'Tis true above all other men I need a goodly store Of UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE so that I may wisely rule And never say a foolish thing nor act the silly fool."
— from Facts in Jingles by Winifred Sackville Stoner

Some of us knew some of them, and in such happy case there followed interchange of pretty pleasantries.
— from The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

What God accomplished through him some of us know something about, and the results are glorious.
— from Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers