'make one think' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to suggest that someone should contemplate something, or reflect on something. For example: "The nature of the issue is such that it should make one think carefully before forming an opinion."
Democrats' overreaction and hurt feelings make one think the president touched a nerve.
West Penobscot Bay with the secluded archipelago Fox Islands in the distance at the edge of the Gulf of Maine frames a swath of blue that runs endlessly in a way to make one think the world is flat.
Hey, if Newt Gingrich was willing to call the president's brief remarks on the Trayvon Martin case "disgraceful," what would make one think they'd bite their tongues here?
Apple did unleash its pack of rabid lawyers on MacRumors who pulled down the original video, so that would make one think it's the real deal.
It's all enough to make one think that we're Living in the Past!
This pile of paper cannot help but make one think: when did we start reading so much popular philosophy?
These make one think that the problem with Ms. Gilje's work is less its heavy-handedness than its reserve.
It seemed almost enough to make one think this election could be the one where the landscape shifts.
It's all in a name: Baddies, the cavelike lounge attached to the West Village restaurant Kingswood, does make one think that something deliciously naughty is going to happen.
It is enough to make one think both candidates are spending the days ticking down to the first of three debates, in Denver, cowering under their beds.
Several new journals, and a recent visit to a great little magazine shop in Berlin, again make one think we are entering a differentage of print.
