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Latin College Mottos
When not in English, university mottoes are usually in Latin.
Question | Answer |
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Nil sine magno labore. | Brooklyn ("Nothing without great effort.") |
In Deo speramus. | Brown ("In God we trust.") |
Respice, adspice, prospice. | City College of NY ("Look back, look to the present, look to the future.") |
In lumine tuo videbimus lumen. | Columbia ("In thy light, we shall see light.") |
Vox clamantis in deserto. | Dartmouth ("A voice of one crying in the wilderness.") |
Scientia sol mentis. | Delaware ("Knowledge, the sun of the mind.") |
Sapientia et doctrina. | Fordham ("Wisdom and knowledge.") |
Veritas. | Harvard ("Truth.") |
Mihi cura futuri. | Hunter ("My anxiety is for the future.") |
Veritas vos liberabit. | Johns Hopkins ("Truth will free you.") |
Prodessequam conspici. | Miami ("To the productive, rather than to be ornamental.") |
Perstare et praestare. | NYU ("To preserve and to surpass".) |
Pro ecclesia et patria. | Trinity ("For church and country.") |
Non sibi, sed suis. | Tulane ("Not for herself, but for her own.") |
Crescat scientia, vita excolatur. | U Chicago ("Let knowledge increase, let life be perfected.") |
Civium in moribu rei publiae salus. | U Florida ("In the character of its citizens lies the welfare of the state.") |
Artes, scientia, veritas. | U Michigan ("The arts, knowledge, truth.") |
Virtute et armis. | U Mississippi ("By valour and arms.") |
Salus populi. | U Missouri ("The welfare of the people.") |
Lux hominum vita. | U New Mexico ("Light of the life of men.") |
Lux sit. | U Washington ("Let there be light.") |
Lux et veritas. | Yale ("Light and truth.") |
Crux spes unica. | Notre Dame ("The cross is the only hope.") |
Terras irradient. | Amherst ("Let them illumine the earth.") |