Editing Veritas (section)

==Mottos==
This [[Latin]] word ''veritas'' now appears in the [[motto]]s of many [[college]]s, [[university|universities]] and other organizations. 
It is typically capitalized in mottoes (as ''Veritas'') for being an ideal like Truth, Kindness and Beauty.  

''Veritas'' is the motto of:
* [[Harvard University]]
* [[Hutchesons' Grammar School]]
* [[The University of Western Ontario]]
* [[Drake University]]
* [[Knox College (Illinois)]]
* [[Springfield Convent of the Holy Rosary (South Africa)]]
* [[Bilkent University]]
* the University of California - Hastings College of the Law
* the [[Dominican Order]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]
** [[Providence College]] and [[Molloy College]], run by the Dominicans
* the [[Naval Criminal Investigative Service]]
* [[Loyola College, Ibadan]]

Additionally, the word appears in mottoes that are phrases or lists, e.g.:
* ''Honor et Veritas'': the [[Buckley School (New York City)|Buckley School]] of the [[New York City|City of New York]]
* ''Veritas, Probitas, Iustitia'': the [[University of Indonesia]]
* ''Veritas Nobis Lumen'': the [[University of Cape Coast]] in [[Ghana]]
* ''Artes, Scientia, Veritas'': the [[University of Michigan]]
* ''[[Veritas vos liberabit]]'' (''The Truth Will Set You Free''): The [[Johns Hopkins University]]; and [[St. Thomas College, Thrissur|St Thomas' College (Autonomous), Thrissur]], the first Catholic college in Kerala
* ''[[Veritas vos liberabit|Veritas Liberabit Vos]]'': [[Doshisha University]] in [[Kyoto]], [[Japan]]
* ''Verbum Tuum Veritas'' ("Your Word is Truth"): [[Monkton Combe School]].
* ''Lux et Veritas'' ("Light and Truth"): [[Indiana University]] and [[Yale University]].
* ''Vox Veritas Vita'' ("Speak the Truth as a way of Life"): [[California State University]]
* ''Veritas Curat'' ("Truth Cures"): the [[JIPMER|Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research]], a medical school in [[Puducherry (city)|Puducherry]], [[India]]. 
* ''Veritas Lux Mea'' ("Truth is my light"): in the logo of [[Seoul National University]], Korea
* ''Veritas, Unitas, Caritas'' ("Truth, Unity, Love"): [[Villanova University]]
* ''Gratiae veritas naturae'': [[Uppsala University]] in Sweden
* ''Lux et Veritas Floreant'' ("Let Light and Truth Flourish"): [[The University of Winnipeg]]

[[Caldwell College]] in [[Caldwell, New Jersey]] issues a "Veritas Award" each year in honor of the [[Dominican Sisters]] who founded and administer the college.

[[Howard University]], in [[Washington, D.C.]], goes by the motto ''Veritas et Utilitas'', translated to "Truth and Service", which is also a motto "Truth-Service" of [[Payap University]], [[Thailand]].

The American communications company [[Verizon Communications|Verizon]] derives its name from the combination of the words ''{{lang|la|veritas}}'' and [[horizon]] - chosen from 8,500 candidates with $300&nbsp;million spent on marketing the new brand.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www22.verizon.com/investor/corporatehistory.htm |title=Verizon p;— Investor Relations — Company Profile — Corporate History |access-date=September 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124005517/http://www22.verizon.com/investor/corporatehistory.htm |archive-date=November 24, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=BryanCulp>{{cite news |last=Culp |first=Bryan |date=January 1, 2001 |title=Playing the Name Game Again |url=http://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2000/205/playing-the-name-game-again |newspaper=marketingprofs.com |access-date=November 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318180530/http://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2000/205/playing-the-name-game-again |archive-date=March 18, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>