Take Kim Jong-un for example, he's regarded as one of the most dangerous men in the world. However, behind his crazy action we can certainly discern his secret motives for making nuclear threats.
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3You could say he's "crazy like a fox" = He seems crazy, but he actually has a cunning plan.– stangdonCommented Mar 25, 2016 at 14:35
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1a psychopath: psychologytoday.com/blog/mindmelding/201301/…– JavaLatteCommented Mar 25, 2016 at 16:10
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2A crazy person is rarely stupid, I think. But many of them are close to "mad" (but "mad" is also another tricky word, e.g., mad scientists).– Damkerng T.Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 16:17
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There's a perception that a genius is someone who is crazy or borderline crazy, but very intelligent.– hb20007Commented Mar 28, 2021 at 12:48
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- "There's method in his madness" - There is often a plan behind a person's apparently inexplicable behavior. Based on a line from Shakespeare 's Hamlet.
Polonius. What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet. Between who?
Polonius. I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
Hamlet. Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum; and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams. All which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir, should be old as I am if, like a crab, you could go backward.
Polonius. [aside] Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
answered Mar 25, 2016 at 16:54
