The nature of truth has been linked with the good and the beautiful as one of man's supreme values. The pursuit of truth is indistinguishable in practice from the pursuit of knowledge, whether about the environment, nature, ethnical duties and ideas, or the relation to the divine.( Boodin 208-209 ) The complete understanding of the nature of truth is not humanely achievable. From the natural events in our lives, we have ideas that we find are our personal truths. From these ideas, we have learned to comprehend life with reason and logic and we have found our idea of reality(Edwards 130). But it is our sense of reason and logic and our idea of truth that may likely to be wrong. Truth exists but is not absolute; Do we ever come to an understanding of what truth is or is it still out there for people to wonder about? If my truth differs from your truth that can only be because either one or both of us is unaware of the truth and has called something true which is not.(Edwards 130-131) . Mohandas Gandhi spoke of "The Absolute Truth, the Eternal Principle, that is God" and said, " I worship God as Truth only." Jesus said, " I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life." God is truth and the essence of it. All of his ways are truth and all truth stands or falls as it is measured against Him. He wants us to know the truth, which is to know him. God places the truth before us and gives us complete freedom to choose how to respond to the truth resulting in many different meanings of truth (Krishnamurti 119)The nature of truth is more and beyond that which is true. For thousands of years, Philosophers have attempted to answer the question "What is Truth?" Truth is the quality of being true, and anything that is true, is a truth. “An idea makes a truth claim and is true when the character of what is thought about upholds its claim” ( Krishnamurti 39). Man has no innate ideas and that makes truth individual. Basically...
