Answer:
Turns me on my backs and open up my stomach. You will be the wisest of men though at start a lummox.
Born of sorrow, grow with age, you need a lot of me to be a sage. What am I?
I am the building with the most number of stories.
I go up, let out a load and then go back down. What am I?
I go up when the rain comes down. What am I?
Dry though I may be, I am still a sea.