The facts are often lies and values are superficial at best. Our lives depend more on calorie intake over a 24 hour period. Life lives on life.

Reality, facts, truth...yes vitally important as a basis or foundation for your values.
My Christian neighbours are fine,lovely people.
The foundation of their beliefs inform their reality and what their values are.
My trust in reason, science and Atheism informs my reality and my values.
I just happen to believe I've got more facts than they do...lots more! ?

Facts. My feelings never change the facts. Facts may sometimes change my feelings.

choices and Circumstance.

If by ‘facts’ you mean ‘reality’, then yes.

Values are emotions and emotions are not based on fact. They are a set of rules that evolution has put in place. For instance, most men will not hit a woman because she has a childlike face and you would not hit or destroy the carrier of your DNA..I think values are the rules we all know to be true. Love and nurture.

There are a lot of valued things that are of no value to me including thoughts... there are a lot facts true but useless to me. I had lived and burn the candle by both ends at the same time. I am no longer attracted to everything that shines. I will continue moving along admiting that right or wrong is possible and happens often. "Do as you like!"

This is a dogging question.

If your values are not based on facts, then your values are invalid.

Example:
"I deeply value the gold at the end of the rainbow."
There is no gold at the end of the rainbow(generally), so you are speaking nonsense and your value is invalid.

Or we can go with a modern case.

Example:
"I am a feminist, because feminism is about equality for all people."
No. Equality is what provides equality and that is a subjective term, as it is applied to objects.

Feminism to start, Highlights FEM in the start of the word which immediately segregates NON-FEMS, but then uses a hijacked definition as apologetics for the absurd usage case.

Or we can go with a traditional example.

Example:
"Only God can judge me, I see things clear. The quickest cracker will give my black ass 100 years."

1. You have no proof that God can judge you, so this is not a fact, but a faith value held regardless of facts.
2. Knowledge claims based upon future events are speculative and although may be based on current facts, cannot account for change and so are inherently based upon subjective values.

Facts are what build reality. Values are a subjective appraisal and not monogamous with reality.

Both. And I don't really think "values" equates to religion. Aren't we supposed to be kind to one another - religion be damned (so to speak)?

“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

The course of our lives depends on our knowledge of facts and on our choices. Our choices depend on both our knowledge of facts and on our values. There is no way to that one is more critical than the other.

It all depends how you were raised. If you were raised non religious, it would be facts more than values. If you were raised with religious bs, it's just the opposite. Which is sad to some degree. Being a former fool, I believe facts more than values.

I think that there is more to be gleaned from facts, than values, because values are narrow and cause a person to crystallize, but facts open up the realm of possibilities into new development. Values are just a population control mechanism.

Values are more important than facts to our development in our lives. Too often people use the wrong values. Facts are important but they should not have any bearing on your life unless you dispute them for some reason, but that would also be a problem with the individual's values.

We see so often that people will ignore the facts and live by the values instilled in them often by their parents. This is religion.. We can show no proof of a god yet individuals will believe according to the values their parents have brought them up with.This is why it is so difficult to change their attitudes toward religion.