The phrase "a temptation to think" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the allure or inclination to consider a particular idea or perspective.
Example: "There is often a temptation to think that success comes without hard work, but that is rarely the case."
Alternatives: "an urge to believe" or "a lure to consider".
Because you know it's happening, there's a temptation to think it's happening all the time.
And I know there's a temptation to think you're different from everyone else.
There is always a temptation to think that it will, somehow, fade away as an issue.
Faced with that kind of choice, there is a temptation to think that, by attacking first, America could more easily define the scope and the consequences.
There is a temptation to think that there is nothing that we can do individually that will make enough of a difference - this is fundamentally wrong!
There's a temptation to think that a successful continuation involves providing the book the originating author would have written if they could and the ghosts of Andrews and Ludlum clearly follow this rule.
46 Any temptation to think that obese women are less sexually active and therefore less in need of effective methods of contraceptive is clearly without foundation.
Because "Free State of Jones" is the product of rich historical research, there's a strong temptation to think of the action less as a matter of drama than of narration — to delve into the movie's details as a series of astonishing and resonant events and to tell them with the same precise assemblage that Ross lends them.
When we were assuming that the underspecificity in the GTT resulted from underspecificity about the domain of quantification for 'every' there was a natural temptation to think that we would get the strictest, most careful and correct answer by dealing with a completely unrestricted domain.
A cyclist is explicitly presented as a human being (or creature of some other animal species) cycling: there is no temptation to think of a cyclist as a basic kind of thing in its own right.
The temptation to think it a new totalitarianism is too strong for many to resist.
