“I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.”

—  Boyd K. Packer

Quinn (ed), Faithful History: Essays On Writing Mormon History, p 103, fn 22

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