Perhaps, to become wise, one has to experience the lack of wisdom in one's life. This has to be a perpetual experience, and then, even if you do not experience your own wisdom, you will be wise, because you will by default, strive for wisdom.
Awareness of your SELF.
Awareness of the world
the nature
the people
to be aware is to know about that stuff
when you actually become aware of a particular thing. then you will definitely realise that it is quite futile and meaningless.
you will resent your search that awareness of the self itself makes you wise.
Wisdom involves knowing of the stuff and also knowing that it is eventually all futile.
Optimist or realist might condemn it for stealing the meaning of life
But in the aware state you will know that all the stuff around you or life around is basically the same thing
there is hardly any difference in two atoms or two energies
A wise person being aware can live his/her life with bliss
he wont have any tensions about that particular thing.
a common saying
you acquire all the knowledge of the world in a lifetime.
then you realise that the way of knowing everything is TO DROP YOUR KNOWLEDGE
You might collect all the sounds of the world
but you will have peace only in silence(absence of all the sounds)
wise people are closer to god as they are not happy but are in bliss