A Lie Has Speed, but Truth Has Endurance

I occasionally read from the book entitled, "Quotable Quotes" from readers digest. It entails everyday quotes from well-known people. From Albert Einstein, to Harold Nicholson, this book has 216 pages of incredible quotes and exclamations that help with everyday life. This book was just lying on the table one day, so me being me, I picked it up and immediately flipped to page 134, and read the first quote on the second column.

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." Edgar J. Mohn

This quote struck me at the resemblance to Aesops popular fable, "The Tortoise and The Hare". The lie must be the hare because the hare is very speedy, yet underestimates the tortoise. The truth in turn would be the tortoise in that although he was quite slow, he kept the same speed the entire race and overcame the hare. The quote made me think a bit deeper yet. When a lie is told, it always starts up strong. It's spread from person to person quickly and will almost always be found to be a lie. Yet when a truth is uttered from person to person, it's often believable, and therefore has the endurance to persevere. Think of the lie as an Olympic short-distance dasher, and the truth as an Olympic long-distance runner. Who would win in a 1200 meter run? The answer is quite obvious, the truth. A lie may win in a 200-meter dash, but the truth will always win in the "long run". When you tell a lie, you may be fine for a short amount of time, but it will be proven wrong, and you will be held responsible if the lie is severe enough. When you tell the truth, it won't come back at you later because there's nothing wrong with stating a fact.

Truth endures the long run.

Do you believe that endurance is better then speed?