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Boyd K. Packer in his address to Church Educators "The Mantle is Far Far Greater than the Intellect".

Published in Brigham Young University Studies 21 (Summer 1981): 259-278.

In an amazing declaration Michael Quinn reports that Elder Packer told him when he was being interviewed for his position

at Brigham Young University that he has 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."

(This is a telling statement of Elder Packers repressed shadow material!)

In D. Michael Quinn On Being a Mormon Historian (And Its Aftermath),

ed. George D. Smith, Faithful History: Essays On Writing Mormon History (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992), 103.

“The new traditionalists contend that objectivity is, in fact, impossible and that history should therefore be written with certain pre-understandings, including that God exists and that Joseph Smith was his prophet.”