Full Idea
Facts are hard things which do not consist in my thinking so and so, but stand unmoved by whatever you or I or any man or generations of men may opine about them.
Gist of Idea
Facts are hard unmoved things, unaffected by what people may think of them
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Criterion of Validity in Reasoning [1903], I)
Book Reference
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.125
A Reaction
This is my view of facts, with which I am perfectly happy, for all the difficulties involved in individuating facts, and in disentangling them from our own modes of thought and expression. Let us try to establish the facts.